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[kosmium]

I've been Kosmium for a few years now... 4 or 5. I always struggled trying to find a name I could stick with that wasn't taken on all over the web. I do try to use Kosmium where ever I go.

The names come from my job as a chemist. I started using the element osmium, but found it was taken on some boards. Then I played around combined Kosmo and Osmium to get Kosmium. When you look up that up, you find it was a name proposed for a "new element" but the discovery didn't stick.

Avatar, still working on that one. Haven't figured out what to use.....